Thursday, December 24, 2009

Day 6 - Phuket - other islands and Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve...
Today we went on a boat tour of some of the islands around Phuket. It was a very nice day of water, sun and sand. Our tour guide was great with the girls too. Oh, there was a 12 year old apprentice on our boat. Very cute, small boy who was learning the ropes of boating. Interesting to see his life compared to Dani's who is the same age.

Later we to a dinner party at our hotel. It was nice, but long. We were very tired from our long days of site seeing. We went back to our room and watched a movie. Dani was the only one who stayed up for the whole thing.
























Coconuts drying in the sun. A rubber tree.







Rubber drying. Interesting to see if being collected from trees.

A rubber "factory."

Houses on the island.







Christmas eve at our hotel. They served a nice 5 course dinner. Santa came around with treats and local children sang to us. It was very nice.